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September 2008

09/26/08 Hedda the Class Gabler, Interrupted Into the Woods meets Groundhog Day in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, a campy twist on the story of Henrik Ibsen’s doomed heroine from playwright Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q). When Hedda decides to take things into her own... Posted at 09:10 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/19/08 Our Kind of Town Even if you’ve seen it butchered by a high-school cast—especially if you’ve seen it butchered by a high-school cast—don’t miss The Hypocrites’ take on the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town. The troupe remounts its too-short, sold-out staging, an imaginatively revisionist twist on what must be... Posted at 07:07 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/12/08 A Man Walks into a Noir Poor old Hamlet may not have been the picture of stability, but then again, neither was crime-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled hero Sam Spade. Put them together, and you’ve got one tongue-twister of a nod toward the dark and the stormy: Dashiell Hamlet, a new play cowritten by the 84-year-old stage and screen vet... Posted at 09:40 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/05/08 People’s Choice Thirty years ago, Jim Jones urged the residents of his “utopian” settlement in Jonestown, Guyana, to drink poison-spiked punch. In the three decades since, the event has lingered uncomfortably in the public memory: How did such a thing happen? Why?... Posted at 07:41 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

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